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Venetia, too, had quarrelled with her mother; that mother who, for fourteen years, had only looked upon her with fondness and joy; who had been ever kind, without being ever weak, and had rendered her child happy by making her good; that mother whose beneficent wisdom had transformed duty into delight; that superior, yet gentle being, so indulgent yet so just, so gifted yet so condescending, who dedicated all her knowledge, and time, and care, and intellect to her daughter.
It is no common mind that could maintain its hold over Cadurcis, and his spirit could not yield but to rare and transcendent qualities. He found them, Venetia, he found them in her whom he had known longest and most intimately, and loved from his boyhood. Talk of constancy, indeed! who has been so constant as my cousin?
I assure you there is nothing in the world more easy and diverting than a letter from Plantagenet. 'If you could only see his first letter from Eton to me? said Venetia. 'I have always treasured it. It certainly was not very diverting; and, if by easy you mean easy to decipher, she added laughing, 'his handwriting must have improved very much lately.
No longer, fond of the sun and breeze as a beautiful bird, was Venetia seen, as heretofore, glancing in the garden, or bounding over the lawns; too often might she be found reclining on the couch, in spite of all the temptations of the spring; while her temper, once so singularly sweet that it seemed there was not in the world a word that could ruffle it, and which required so keenly and responded so quickly to sympathy, became reserved, if not absolutely sullen, or at times even captious and fretful.
Cecil took it wearily nothing but fresh embarrassments could come to him from England and looked at the little Lady Venetia. "Will you allow me?" She bowed her graceful head; with all the naif unconsciousness of a child, she had all the manner of the veille cour; together they made her enchanting.
O Plantagenet, I am sure you will break my heart. Venetia went up to the little lord in the corner, and gently stroked his dark cheek. 'Are you the little boy? she said. Cadurcis looked at her; at first the glance was rather fierce, but it instantly relaxed. 'What is your name? he said in a low, but not unkind, tone. 'Venetia! 'I like you, Venetia, said the boy. 'Do you live here?
I must go and tell my lady immediately. 'Light me to my room, said Venetia; 'I will not disturb my mother, as she is unwell. Venetia rose, and Mistress Pauncefort followed her to her chamber, and lit her candles. Venetia desired her not to remain; and when she had quitted the chamber, Venetia threw herself in her chair and sighed.
I will be dutiful; she shall be devoted; we will all be happy, he added in a softer tone. 'Now, now, Venetia, my happiness is on the stake, now, now. 'I have spoken, said Venetia. 'My heart may break, but my purpose shall not falter. 'Then my curse upon your mother's head? said Cadurcis, with terrible vehemency. 'May heaven rain all its plagues upon her, the Hecate!
But you, and you alone, know that my state, whatever it may be, and to whatever it may be I am reconciled, is not produced by causes over which these physicians have any control, over which no one has control now, added Venetia, in a tone of great mournfulness.
Still further from me is it to prefer this Tuscan art to that, as local and traditional in its way, of Umbria or Venetia, which stands to this as the most poignant lyric or the richest romance stands, let us say, to the characteristic quality, sober yet subtle, of Dante's greatest passages.
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